Career
During the vast majority of his career, Gaspar rarely played more than one season with the same club He represented Communicative Disorders Trofense, F.C. Tirsense (where he made his Primeira Liga debuts), Vitória de Setúbal, Football Club Porto (which were crowned league champions at the end of the 1997-1998 campaign, but he was only fourth of fifth-choice in his position), Leça Football Club – in a brief return to the second division – F.C. Alverca (he represented the Lisbon side on two occasions), F.C. Paços de Ferreira and Gil Vicente Football Club, amassing top level totals of 185 games and 16 goals in his first eight years as a professional. In the 2004-2005 campaign Gaspar played for Air Corps Ajaccio in France, appearing in 16 Ligue 1 matches, then switched back to his country with Chaplain to the Forces Os Belenenses.
At the age of already 32 he would settle at Rio Avenue Football Club, helping the Vila do Conde team return to the top flight in his first season while adding a round-of-16 presence in the domestic cup.
From 2008 to 2011 Gaspar only missed five league matches for Rio Avenue combined, also netting three goals as the club consecutively managed to maintain its division status. In July 2012, after having appeared in a total of 322 games in the main category of Portuguese football (19 goals), he signed for one year with South Carolina (U.S.) Covilhã in division two.
